Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

This influences the technology. These are minor errors, but there also errors in which plans are omitted and where there are inadequate biodiversity provisions. The Department officials have gone back to many individual farmers and their planners and have been in a position to rectify the errors made by the people who submitted the plans in the first place. We want to eliminate the disparities involved. More than 2,000 payments have been issued up until last Monday, and they continue to be issued every day. I do not accept that if plans are sent in with obvious errors, it is somehow the fault of the receiving Department.

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